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TENANTS" PETITION."
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central district, and separate: trades have confined themselves:
FIFTY YEARS.
» RECORD OF ST. JOSEPH'S
COLLEGE.
EARLY DAYS.
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1926.
A GOOD YEAR.
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While on the subject of Scholars ship acknowledgement must be made of the gift of two scholar- ahlps to the Collers by the Trustees | of the Boklion Scholarship Fund. The first of these scholarships wae won by a son of a Consul-General
The surplus to be dealt with is for Portugal in Hongkong The $1,100,081.17, out of which has successful student was Mr. J. Wbeen paid an Interim Dividend of Loureira, who also won the $18 per share. We now recom- Governor's prize for English Commend the payment of a final Divi- position in 1884. Mr. Loureiro dend of $22 per share, the appro Juccess at school was but the fore-priation of $100,000 to Reinsur- runner of subsequent successes in Reserve Fund and the balance of ance Fund, £10,000 to Sterling ja career that destined him in later years to attain to a Commissioner
$515,199:57 to Underwriting Sus- ship in the Chinese Maritime pense Account to close the year Customs service. A brother of Mr. 269.65 at credit of 1925 Accdunt
1924. The balance of $1,970,-. Loureiro is in the service of the allows of the payment of the usual Salt Gabelle Administration in Interim Dividend of $18 for
that year.
The concluding celebrations in connection with the Golden Jubilee of the St. Joseph's College took the form of an At Home, the Brothers of the College antertaining a large number of friends and old pupila
Toa was served, a Thanksgiving service held, music provided by the band of the East Surrey Regiment, prizes won by the students, present ed by Mr. A. E. Wood and an en- tertainment following towards. Peking. which the College choir contri- buted The choir was under the Frederick Lugard in Hongkong in further that calls for special To perpetuate the name of Sir I do not think there is anything direction of Father Rigant, others connection with his efforts towards comment, but I shall be pleased who contributed to the programme the promotion of education Sir to answer, to the best of my being Messrs. G. Y. D'Aquino, Vic Hormusjee Mody allocated two ability, any question arising out Blundell and Bert
Burrows, scholarships to St. Joseph's College of the Accounts which Share- Alberto N. da Silva and Eduardonamed after Governor Lugard, each holders may wish to put, after Gosano. E. G. O'Aquino, J. Dillor of these scholarships being tenable the adoption of the Report and and J. Roza
for two years. The funds donated Accounts has been duly seconded. by Sir Hormusjes Mody are vested:" in the Director of Education for the time being in Hongkong
During an interval in the enter tainment, Mr.J. P: Braga address ed the gathering.
d'e
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I now propose the following resolution
"That the Report and Ac- counts, as presented, including the payment of a Final Divi dend in respect of the year 1924 of $22 per share, and an Interim Dividend in respect of. the year 1925 of $18 per share; an addition of $300,000: to Reinsurance Find of £10,- '000 to Sterling Reserve Fund and of $515,499.67 to Under- writing Suspense Account be adopted and passed.""
Other Business.: This was seconded by Mr. Ho Kom-tong and carried.
to particular localities comprising It was on November 16, 1875,
The Brother Peter Scholarship. in many cases, all the business
he said! that the Christian the name implies, is the gift of firms in that trade. The result, Brothers, spoken of as "admirable Bro. Peter Chrysologus who was it is argued for the Tenants: Pro-teachers, arrived in Hongkong and director of the Collage in 1914. He tective Association, is that it has took charge of the European boys survived his appointment only one at St. Saviour's College. With three month and died in Hongkong on become possible for landlords to
Brothers there were seventy pupila. April 80 of the same year. exercise more than a fair control As a matter of historical interest. It Far the most valuable and im over certain complete trades, and would be well to state that in Sepportant Scholarship, however, con- that in the case of provision trades tember, 1860, the first Catholic tinued Mr. Braga, is that gifted by
the: Portuguese Sociedade. for local consumption the situation School for European boys was
opened in a very small house in Soccorros Mutuos. Through an is one closely affecting the pockets Staunton Streat, with two teachers. endowment by Mr. A. M. L. Soares, of every resident in the Colony. Gradually these two schools-that former pupli, the Society le en- Should these businesses be sub. and a
girls school-developed abled to present a Scholarship for
The re-election of the following. jected to the increase of rentals, themselves and in time became, the the College, the successful holder
laster, the large and important of which enjoys the benefit of Consulting Committee was car "as some have been when not under italian Convent in Caine Rond; the education In the University of ried on the proposition of Mr. Ho the protection of the Ordinance, former, first, St. Saviour's College Hongkong At the present moment Leung, seconded by Mr. Steaven they would be compelled to close and, later, the present St. Joseph's there are two students (who tied son: The Hon Mr. D. G. M... The Tate Mr. Arvatoon at the examinations)pursuing Bernard, the Hon. Sir Phal uper move; and the moving of any College.
Seth and Mr. Alfredo Souza-names their studies in the Faculties of Chater, Sir Robert Ho Tung and trade from a locality where good-familiar in the Civil Service List Commercial Arts and Engineering. Messrs. A. H. Compton, A. S. will has been built up is always of Hongkong-were among the first respectively, an the holders of the Gabbay, Henry Humphreys, T E. fraught with great loss of custom teachers of St. Saviour'e. It was "Ignez Soares" Scholarship, which Pearce and H. P. White.. and trade connections and would at this time that the Governor, Sir was thus named after the wife of
Richard Graves MacDonnell the donor of the Endowment.. tend toward the dislocation or
publicly made acknowledgment. of cessation of a number of bust the fact that "to the Roman nesses in the Colony. The out-Cathole Missionaries chiefy do we look is not cheerful if the case owe any earnest efforts to provide
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the
of
Purchase of Kennedy Road! Property.
Messrs Lowe Birgham and Matthews and Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, were re-elected auditors at a remuneration of $750 on the proposition of Mr. An earthquake in 1918 damaged P. M. N da Silva, seconded by Whilst not hopeful that the presented to His Excellency the an adequate body of future inter-the College building. The main Mr. Raymond.
walls of the annexes were badly This concluded the business. Goverment will resile from its Governor is as the sonsors make preters of European parentage."
eracked and it was considered un-of the meeting, the Chairman declared intention to discontinue out. It seems obvious that, if the First College Building
safe to remain in occupation or stating that dividend warrants the Rents Ordinance on June 30, Rents Ordinance is to
go: As soon as the Brothers took the building. A rare opportunity were ready and could be obtained the petition prepared for presenta-something akin to a Fair Rents over charge of European presented itself for the acquisition on application.
the extensive property in tion to His Excellency the Gov- Board must take its place. This classes of St. Saviour's, the name
Thanks to Bra... jerner is not without interest. The is not only the opinion of the Chin-of the school underwent a change Kennedy Road, case made out by the Hongkong, ese section of the community. It to that of St. Joseph's College. It Aimar's unflinching courage and de- moved into new premises. The termination to face all financial Tenants" Protective Association is to be trusted that the Governor- first building in Chine Road aur difficulties, and to the aid granted In-Council will weigh all sides of vived for fifty years the demolition by the Colonial Government, the undoubtedly contains several the question most thoroughly lest points that at least merit serious they unwittingly make the last of the land-jobber. It was, erection of the fine; spacious build- unfortunately, unrecognisable in ing opposite the lower Peak Tram state of affairs worst than the its original form, excepting for, itaway Terminus became possible and
location. It stood at the corner of is now, an accomplished fact. first! -
Caine Road at its junction with Aberdeen Street just above Queen's College. Bishop Raimondi saw
consideration.
No one who has been in the actal position of a tenant would ever deny, for instance, the con- tention that "rentals in the Colony age unwarrantably high and have a direct and immediate effect on the cost of living, which for the working and the poorer classes is. a matter of great anxiety." This argument is not confined to the working and the poorer clases The rents of flats occupied by non- Chinese appear excessively high, and here also they exercise a pernicious effect on the cost of living generally. No reasonable person, no matter how amall his
FIVE YEARS.
CHINA BUILDING ROBBERS SENTENCED.
TO BE FLOGGED.
-1875-1925
Starting with only to boys
in
800
DR. YEN'S NEW CABINET.
FULL LIST OF NEW MEMBERS.
Peking, May 12,-Dr. W. W. Ten has arranged to assume the Pro- midrahip. He is convening a Cabinet at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon."
Generala Chang Hsueh-liang and that the Caine Road building would 1875, St. Joseph's College has un soon be found to be much too small enrolment to-day, of over
Chang Chun-chang left for Tientsin for the constantly increasing de-scholars... Thousands have passed this morning, accompanied by their mands of scholars and he acquired through its portala. The thousands bodyguards. of the "Glenealy" property with Its who have thus gone forth into the
Tribute to the Brothers..
No official information is obtain-
which apparently has ceased."
Li Yuan, who has been residing.
at Urga, has been appointed Governor of the Metropolitan Ared at the request of Marshal Chang Tao-lin
Nevertheless, réactionary feeling on 'part of the Fengtien party as to the present political arrange- ment is getting more conspicuous than ever, especially with respect to Marshal CHL
Dr. W. W. Yen's Cabinet will be
upon, reads as en Prem
bers, as it has been finally agread
The May Sessions opened at extensive area atretching from world from the de la Salle estabable with regard to the fighting the Supreme Court buildings Caine Rond for its northern boun-Hahment in Hongkong are fulfilling this morning and had finished dary to. Robinson Road as the their mission as useful members of within fifteen minutes. No jury southern.. Within the spacious Society. Some have found occupa was empanelled.
grounds of "Glenealy" the Cathe-tion in the liberal professiona; This is in striking contrast to drab of the Immaculate Conception others in the distinguished service the April Sessions which extend was erected and plans laid for the of foreign Governments, while not
Marshal Chi Haish-yuan and Mr. ed into May and necessitated new building of St. Joseph's Col- a few are employed under their the attendance of the jury for a lege with the main entrance from own Governments in China in the Chang Chi-tan are among the on- record local period.
Robinson Road. The foundation diplomatic and consular services; thusiasts urging the immediate re The two Chinese concerned in stone of the new St. Joseph's Col-and last, but not least, a whole storation of Dr. W. W. Yen's. the S. China Restaurant at lege building was laid on Novem-host have filled more modest but, Cabinet, both being of the opinion tempted robbery pleaded guilty. bera, 1881, by the Governor, the nevertheless, equally useful and that every other difficulty could be earnings. would begrudge the
Addressing theri, Mr.. Justice late Sir John Pope Hennessy, essential occupations as assistants solved after the official re-establish- property owners a fair return for Wood said: 4 4 a.m. on April K.C.M.G. The College building in in the mercantile, banking and tele-ment of the Cabinet. the amount they invest in the 14 you went to, this place where Robinson Road was inaugurated by graph services of Hongkong and
the second prisoner was employ- Mr. Wm. Marsh, the Officer Admini- the Far East. building of residential propertyed, and you there found a man stering the Government, in 1883, but who is in a position to say asleep. You made an attempt when the teaching staff consisted when that degree of fairness and to strangle him but he succeeded of sight Brothers, with 300 pupils, I cannot close this imperfect and
in overpowering you both equity oversteps the mark? Not
At a prizegiving In 1884. Bishop far from complete review of the It appears that at this time Raimond! stated that it was only history of St. Joseph's College for all houses, are protected even at there was a corsiderable sum of in 1879 that St. Joseph's College the past, fifty years, concluded Mr. officially restored at Huni: Jen-tang. present by the Rents Ordinance, money on the restaurant pre- was received under the Grant-in-Braga, without a tribute to the on May 18 at 3 pm.
The liet of the'new Cabinet mem- and it is in such cases that not mises and that the second Aid Scheme. St. Joseph's College, Directors and their army of only the landlord but that greater sente in, the safe, continued Mr. prospered even more than it did "Always sawing, yet leaving to prisoner was aware of its pre-under Government inspection, teachers who have come and gone. delinquent, the principal tenant, Justice Wood The sentence of before." The.Grant-in-Aid Scheme, seeks to make, hay while the the court is that you be impri-had been in existence since 1872. sun shines. The sub-tenants have soned with hard labour for five
years and that 'each of you not the slightest remedy-except flogged, receiving 24 strokes of the inconvenient, one of moving the birch.
It was at this same prize-giving out and finding a landlord'or prin-
Driven By Hunger.
that the Governor, Sir George epal tenant with higher notions Hunger due to his unemploy. Bowen, addressing the pupils, de of fair play. It is here that a Fairment was the reason given by clared his "intention to propose to
Koreyoshi Shimada, a Japanese the Colonial Legislature that in portance Pents Board could do admirable who admitted to the possession this, as in other Colonies, a certain childhood, especially in these days. work, besides automatically eras of arms in Victoria Road and number of the most promising when the powers of darkness sre ing all the objections that the the theft of money from a Chin: students from the principal colleges doing their utmost to ruin youth: should be sent to England; at the and, always continuing to walk in Government may have to a con-
Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, for the public expense, there to complete the footsteps of their holy, Founder, tinuance of the Rents Ordinance. Crown, said that the Japanese their education, às members of the they fulfil their humble, yet exalt- ed, mission, with perseverance and Moreover, speaking of rents consulate had made enquiries as legal or medical professions, or as and the Rents Ordinance, there to his past without avail. The engineers or accountants.gir courage, their eyes Axed upon, a chancellor of the consulate had George Bowen was the founder of reward greater than any this world has been too great a tendency to interviewed the prisoner who the Queen's Scholarship named | can give." think of houses and fats first, | had told him the same as he had after Queen Victoria the Good. last, and all the time. There are stated when charged, viz, that Not long after, St. Joseph's College others than house and flat he was out of work and hungry sent its pupila in competitive occupiers who are equally entitled he had done. He had made no On the second occasion the scholar-
and that this led him to do what examination for the scholarship. TRY CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN
BALM. to be considered. This point is well application for relief from the ship was won by a St. Josephian- emphasised in the petition of the consulates
the late Mr. G. A. Yvanovich, Jr. BRUISES, strains and stify swollen should be rubbed vigorously Tenants Protective Association.
Prisoner was sentenced to 2 The first Queen's scholar, was with Chamberlain's. Pain: Baimas years imprisonment with hard brother of a prominent citizen and owing to its penetrating quality, the The development of the Colony, Jabour on each of the charges benefactor of education Sir circulation 14 stimulated throughout the laid hold of the relation of silence. they submit has resulted in stealing and the possession of Robert Ho Tung, LL.D. Bir Robert's congested parts relieving the you crowding both wholesale and re- dagger, the sentences to run brother was student of the Gov and Inflammation that all
pain Sold and recommended ever I tail shops into a small area in the concurrently.
ernment Central Schoo
where
ese on April 29.
be
Scholarships.
others the joy of reaping: spend ing their whole lives, within the walls of a school," they ever conte and go, surrounded, only by little, children and youths. The Brothers have responded to the fall of Jesus Christ, to lead little children to Him: they understand the full im
of a good education in
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Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Minister of Education."
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Mr. Yong Hung-hsiang, "Chief' Secretary to the Cabinet-Kuo Wen.
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